Was randomly looking at the TD record and notice that Brees is only 2 away now.
Even though the NFL has a billion stats for every position, career passing TD's together with career rushing yards and career sacks is actually one of the big statistics that matter.
And Brees has the Colts, no less at home on Monday Night Football.
Which is funny because last year they put Saints on prime time in week 8 or so, calculating that he would break the yardage record that week and it worked.
This year they just fluked it.
However, Brady plays the day before, and he's only 1 behind Brees. So Brady can get the joint record or even the record (with 4 TDs) and hold it for a day.
Every game that I've watched LJ play, I can't help but laugh and wonder what all of those GMs, coaches, and talking heads who discounted him or suggested that he become a RB think now (especially the ones' who teams aren't too great). Granted, some of the credit goes to the entire organization for building around him instead of just trying to plug him in, but even just plugging him in would be better than what some teams have (or drafted ahead/instead of him).
I'm not discounting all of the other great players and coaches that BAL has assembled, but LJ is a pretty huge piece of their success. I also don't know that 'having more film on him' makes much difference when he's flying past or juking them out of their shoes.
TBF to the people that doubted Lamar, its perfectly understandable. Now i don't watch college football, dont know any players until they come into the NFL, so wasn't making any predictions about Lamar.
But every player tells you they are gonna give it their all etc etc, theres no way of knowing who is right. Looking at the history of running QBs, a lot of them dont work out. Even the good ones like RG3 and Kaep can fall off pretty quick. Looking at the history of good prospects, most bomb.
It wasn't personal. They just thought he wouldn't work out.
Even the Ravens didn't think that highly of him cos they chose a tight end ahead of him.
He proved everyone wrong. His reward is he's the face of the NFL, gonna get millions (probably) and is the only person who might somehow replace Ray Lewis as the eternal face of the Ravens.
And whatsmore, precisely because people underestimated him, he got onto a team that actually has a chance of winning, unlike his codraftees who got onto teams like the Jets, Giants, Browns, Redskins etc.
Reminds me of that famous Goldman study that found so many Olympic athletes would be willing to die in five years from some drug if it got them a gold medal. You two seem to support the idea in principle, aside from the banned aspect of doping. Never mind if Jackson has a career-ending injury, just get that SB win.
Well the difference is the olympics is a 4 year buildup and many only get one shot in their career. SB is once a year and if your on a good enough team/ franchise, you can get your shot at the playoffs a few times,
But yeah people at this level of sports generally have to have the - winning now means everything mentality. I think I saw an interview with Sherman 5 years ago talking about how he knows the CTE risks but its worth it for the now.
Seriously, the guy is on his way to the MVP. No, his career can't continue down this path, but as I said before, Baltimore has built their team around him playing like this, for now, and they have got to roll the dice, tell him to keep his head up and slide or run out of bounds if there's any doubt, but otherwise just go out and play, for the now, for this season.
In the Jets game i was surprised to see him still in the game at 35-7 with 10 minutes in the 4th. And he did a 20 yard run too. I mean, let RG3 play at that stage
He also said he will play both remaining games. I hope they change that if the 1 seed is wrapped up by then
The issue with all these teams is that the AFC has wildcard teams that are surging. I'm not saying the Bills, Steelers or Titans are going to win the Super Bowl, but any of these teams right now are capable of going on the road in the playoffs and upsetting someone as they are all playing well late in the season.
I on the other hand will go out on a limb and say i do not think these teams are capable of upsets. Especially the Steelers. Its very impressive that they are where they are but their 3rd qb is starting. They played some good teams close but don't have any wins there, apart from the Rams when the Rams were freefalling. They also played bad teams close.
Impressive but they are the team I would want in the playoffs.
Titans have been impressive and I like them but I think they are a level below the Ravens and some of the NFC giants.
Bills have gotten hot now, with the away crushing of Dallas, but they also feasted largely on an easy schedule and lost games (Eagles, Browns) that should have been won